Damn!! Let's play some pickup!!

I haven't played a game of ultimate for what seems like forever now. If the weather be fine on Sunday 2nd Jan, let's meet at Oakman after Australia get bowled out.. that's right, 4pm. We'll do some focused throwing before having some good old pick-up.

Love

Dan

Merry Christmas Training

On behalf of the HUC Community I would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas. With that said, although work seems to slow down people seem to get more and more busy. They worry about Christmas presents, shopping, preparations, planning. When there is so much going on, Sunday afternoon seems like a great time to get things done, right? Wrong! Give yourself a Christmas present this Sunday by coming down to the last HUC training session of the year!

Get to Oakman Park at 3:15, a drill at 3:30 and an action packed hour long game at 4 to round out the session and the year. At this stage this is the last planned Heroes Training session of the year so get down and enjoy yourselves!

"Baby in the summer time, thats where I'll be"

With the shut down of league ultimate over the Christmas holidays many people are taking time off (yes yes FS & BB are training hard over the summer). But many people will know that possible changes are being suggested in realtion to the BUML.

Maybe this poll holds some sway? Its not up to us and of course we love the orgnaisers for putting the Monday night league on. But just some food for thought

Catching Training Sunday

After rain spoilt the last couple of opportunities, this Sunday is shaping up to be a great chance to continue the planned training sessions.  This Sunday will focus on catching and developing some of the subtle aspects that contribute to good catching.

Naturally, followed by a game. Any questions/ suggestions, email me, Spaz, or Danny.

Awards Night Wrap Up

A few tales have surfaced post HUC Awards Night, some true, others not so. To prevent you from living in doubt and uncertainty any longer I present here an accurate account of the evenings proceedings:

The Agent Orange made an appearance, assassinating many (beers). Award winners such as Matt Boevink and Vanessa Brown who were not in attendance are presumed dead, perhaps falling in battle against the AO.

Glamour couple Panties and Sonter arrived fashionably late.

The Vego Force united against the forgetful League's Club, defeating them and procuring for themselves an extraordinary pasta dish.

DJ Rickybeatz danced himself into submission, but was able to party boy and thrust countless others before being escorted home.

Founding father and esteemed guest Huddy Fuller teleported himself back to his base in Van Diemen's Land at the night's end.

Party Liason Officer Chris Brown moved the after party to the within-walking-distance Regatta where he was denied the delicious James Squire amber ale on tap due to his own clumsiness of leaving his ID at home. Big Brother Sebastian smoothly attempted persuading the bouncer, but to no avail.

And despite convincing the bartender that I was a big winner, with Bevan's trophy in hand, she still made me pay for my drinks....



The real winners:


Agent Orange - Above and Beyond S2 2010
Vanessa Brown

Salvatore Colangelo ‘Cola’

Heroes Division 2 - Above and Beyond S2 2010
Laura Sonter

Bradley Dull

Discheads - Above and Beyond S2 2010
Matt Schultz

Katie Truss

Super Heroes - Above and Beyond S2 2010
Carl Behrendorff

Robyn Parkinson

Heroes BPL - Most Valuable Player S2 2010
Bevan Rudolph

Heroes BPL - Outstanding Rookie Award S2 2010
James Morrell

Wonder Women - Most Valuable Player S2 2010
Jo Ashdown

Wonder Women - Outstanding Rookie Award S2 2010
Sarah Thompson

Heroes Ultimate Club - Recruitment Awards 2010
Daniel Strelan - for his leadership of the club over many years and for his passion, which has either started or stoked the ultimate fire within so many Heroes players. His recent receival of AFDA recruiter of the year highlights the ability this man has to bring people into the club. His enthusiasm and efforts are nearly unmatched by anyone in the HUC.

Joshua Weier - for his creation of Discheads. At the time his leadership was an essential part of this team being formed which consisted of an almost entirely fresh roster and now boasts a healthy bench (maybe too healthy?). Josh put great effort into pre season training (season 1) to give these beginners a solid foundation on which to build, to the point where they convincingly took the BUML div2 flag after only 2 seasons together. Although Discheads weren't a part of Heroes during Josh's on field time, they certainly are now, and we owe their existence and much of their development to him.

Heroes Ultimate Club - Coaching Award 2010
Matt Boevink - for his tireless (and so far as the scoreboard goes mostly rewardless) efforts in coaching the Heroes BPL team through 2 seasons, as well as running several coaching sessions throughout the year for the benefit of the entire club. Many Heroes have learnt a lot from him this season.

Heroes Ultimate Club - Culture Award 2010
Carl Behrendorff - for his creation of the blog, as well as the countless hours put in to designing logos and creating posters for tournament prizes. The blog has been the central hub of Heroes communication. It has helped in shaping the culture of the club (history, awards, social) and gives us a presence in the wider ultimate community, with a regular readership coming from all over the world, primarily in Brisbane, but certainly not just limited to the HUC. Carl has conducted interviews and season reviews that are both entertaining and informative. It has been a major contributor to the health of the HUC.

Heroes Ultimate Club - Outstanding Male Award 2010
Adam Beu ‘Jangles’ - for his input to the Heroes BPL team, mostly on the field. He has been the only Firestorm player to come across from another team and help us. He has been enthusiastic about showing us the ropes and the level we need to play at, and has stuck with Heroes despite countless disappointing scores. He has been essential to the workings of the Heroes BPL side.

Heroes Ultimate Club - Outstanding Female Award 2010
Robyn Parkinson - for her creation of the Wonder Women team and encouragement of Heroes women to play in the WUFL. Her presence and voice has been the primary influence in many of our women making the jump from 'casual' to 'interested in more'. As captain of WW she also led these ladies to take the premiership in their first season.


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This year our little club has seen many highs and lows, and some people have found themselves caught up on results and performance from time to time. After conversation with The Vice it seems obvious however that the success and health of this club is dependent not on wins vs losses but rather on us being excellent to each other. Regardless of how well we do in tournaments to come, and whether the BPL team gets some wins or not, and even if we never make it to WUCC 2014, it will still be awesome being a part of this group.

Training Update

Due to inclement (look it up if you don't know it, it's a fantastic word) weather, training this afternoon has been cancelled. With the state of the fields and a forecasted thunderstorm for this afternoon the decision has been taken out of our hands. Sorry for the inconvenience, however, we here at the stately HUC BOM look forward to your company in finer weather.

Things Toohey's New will make you (forget to) say

In my concluding remarks at last night's awards spectacular, I wish I had said the following:

A thanks to all the outside people who have encouraged and showed their support to heroes players individually, and to the club as a whole. People who supported the BPL team despite opposition and those who came down on Sunday afternoons and coached us through various aspects of the game stand out to me the most. Your contribution has been very valuable.

And a huge thanks to Gavin Croft, who has put a huge amount of effort and passion into the club over the year, and in particular in recent months with the vote to become incorporated and everything that goes along with that. The way Gavin selflessly goes about the things that need to be done, the way he conducts himself on and off field and his enthusiasm for Ultimate and life in general makes him a great leader of the club. There is no doubt in my mind that he will continue to do a fantastic job in his position as President of HUC in 2011. Thanks Gav!

It's time for a celebration!

It's that time of year again, and for the first time the Heroes Ultimate Club are putting on a little celebration! Will this be the party of the year? Who knows... but what I do know is that the best parties are made by the people that attend them. Thankfully, we have 30 keen Heroes members descending on Wests Rugby ground this evening striving to make this the best HUC party ever!

How will the evening be structured? Will Laura S retain her duties and to an extent chair the evening? Will the HUC president address the masses and instill in everyone a sense of pride, belonging and outright enthusiasm to bring in the new year with? Will Carl ramble on seemingly endlessly, reminiscing about the one time he was able to play a game and not get injured, or perhaps the one time he was able to throw a huck assist without the disc curving away from the receiver (jk Carl ily)? Will Foxxy prove once and for all that Canadians are indeed the better drinkers? Will Chris' Party Liason Officer skills be put to the ultimate test and will he have the foresight to organise the kick on?

All of these questions and more will be answered tonight! Will you be there??? I... wouldn't want to miss it.

Special trainings- basics that rarely get taught

Hi Everyone,

While I'm in Brisbane I will be running some special trainings to help improve some of the basic skills amongst Heroes Club players. There will be 3 parts to this series.

Part 1- Throwing
There are many small improvements that everyone can make on their throws, but it's hard to make a change and consistently use it.  So to help with this, I will be running 4-5 throwing sessions through the coming week.  They will be centrally located (Roma st or Botanical gardens), and morning or afternoon depending on what suits the most people who are interested.  Could everyone who is interested please email me (huddyfuller@gmail.com) so I can determine numbers and what suits people.

Part 2- Catching
Not as straight forward as it seems.  There are many aspects to improving catching, and we will go over these at training on Wednesday evening, 7pm at Oakman; naturally followed by a game.

Part 3- Game Play & Cohesion (TBC)
This session will focus on some elements to improve game-play as well as playing cohesion and positional awareness.  A time will be announced when this session is confirmed.

Future format for 2011 BUML

There has been speculation and whispers in various frisbee circles about the format of BUML for 2011. The major change to which I would like to discuss is the combining of all three divisions in one timeslot. I would like to share my opinion on this matter and then open the floor to anyone else wishing to constructively talk about this.

Obviously there are pro's and cons to any league format, but I think this would be a bad move for BUML and would be of detriment to the Heroes club plans. Recently, the Heroes Div 2 teams have been gradually progressing through the ranks, climaxing this week in Discheads' triumph in winning the Div 2 final. This season we also entered a Div 1 team which had a season of learning what it takes to play top division mixed ultimate.

As we have previously discussed, Heroes plans to be at Mixed Nationals next year, which will mean training as a team, and taking advantage of every opportunity to play together at a high level before them. One of the ways which we planned to do this was to enter our nationals team in the Div 1 competition and play together every week. However, if everything went to one timeslot, people would have to leave behind their Div 2 teams (which are just starting to become more enjoyable) to play in a new team starting from scratch.

I don't know about you, but to me that sounds terrible. Another con for this merge is the fact that elite players who currently help out new teams (which is incredibly valuable as it gives new players a chance to see what to aspire towards) would have to choose to either charitably help out new teams, or play the top level mixed competition to challenge themselves and play at their potential. Creating this divide lowers the standard of both divisions.


These are my thoughts. Would love to hear the counter arguments.

panties

Discheads battle it out over the arch-nemesis

For many it would seem a lifetime ago since last Monday evening as Dyspnoeics fought out the d2 BUML title against HUCs own Discheads. The blog talk was a buzz (not this buzz) and many thought the game would be a landslide if the BUB tipping was to be trusted but with the Dyspnoeics fielding a very strong line with the likes of coops, jimmy, anna and suz to name a few, DHs were going to have an up hill battle.On top of that Bev was dealing with the old shin splints and two girls (lisa and sarah) out due to injury. But nothing could wreck the DHs spirit. In fact craig left home at 5.45pm to get to the field to be sure to be warmed up and ready to go. Well done son.
I wont try and amuse readers with a score trail but I will highlight some great passages of play that I remember from the side line. One of those was a score from craig where he was playing long against a zone made a good hard long cut, then doubled back under losing his mark and received the disc. He dishie dumped and sprinted long to the end zone to take a great huck thrown around the cup to score. That was a great passage of play. Bev should also be commended with his handling all night and esp his D pressure was outstanding. I saw a horizontal Bevan layoutD to block a scoring pass, with that the DHs lifted and extended their lead to be too far in front of Dysnoeics. Last possession was called and the dark blues easily controlled the disc to score, but too little to late. The game was Discheads. This capped off a stella season and congratulations to all DHs players.
We've found some ol'photos of the night and after all pictures say a thousand words, so this blogger can stop writing. Have a browse and leave comments where you wish.

The Social Event of the Year - Update

A lot has happened this year. Heroes have developed into more than just a random group of people playing Frisbee and I for one feel like it is time to celebrate. I would like to invite all of the Heroes players, partners, and affiliates to come along and help celebrate the year at the first Heroes Ultimate Club Awards Nights.

This momentous event will be held at West Bulldogs Rugby Club at Toowong Memorial Park (along Sylvan Road where we used to train) on Friday the 3rd of December starting from 6pm. The cost is $30 per person. Dinner is included. Dress code is Cocktail Dress (Informal).

This is only two weeks away and as such need to know who would like to and is able to attend as soon as possible. Please RSVP to Chris on 0404 760 131, minimalchris@gmail.com or one of the team captains.

The Opposition - Dyspnoeics (A closer look.. please?)

I"m hoping that Baker or Sauce will see this and fill us in.

Dyspnoeics have been around longer than the Heroes, with the team forming
in S1 2006. I know this because Bevan and I played a few games with them
before I went on a hiatus, returning to the formation of Huddy's Heroes in the Summer of 2007.

My vague memory tells me that it was based around the likes of Andy Lankowski, that other Andy and Latitia (or was that a different team), Dan Blacklock?? I'm just guessing here. I remember another McNaughton being involved, don't remember who that would have been. We were pretty hit and miss in that season..

So come on, someone give us some history on Dyspnoeics. They deserve the spotlight. Have they ever won a BUML/YUFL premiership? Who are they? Where do they come from? When did Sauce and Baker join?

Female Discheads = The New Wave of Ultimate in Brisbane - A force to be reckoned with.

With Wonder Woman Winning the Women's Premiership this season and Discheads now in the BUML Grand Final, the title to this post may carry some clout.

A few of the top girls in Brisbane joined a Heroic core, mostly made up of Dischead Women to create the winning formula for that premiership. Again, these girls are involved with a bunch of boys who are aiming for Firestorm selection this season.

They say that mixed ulitmate is all about the women (by 'they' I mean those female types). We'll see if that's true tonight.. I hope that it is!

The Social Event of the Year

A lot has happened this year. Heroes have developed into more than just a random group of people playing Frisbee and I for one feel like it is time to celebrate. I would like to invite all of the Heroes players, partners, and affiliates to come along and help celebrate the year at the first Heroes Ultimate Club Awards Nights.

This momentous event will be held at West Bulldogs Rugby Club at Toowong Memorial Park (along Sylvan Road where we used to train) on Friday the 3rd of December starting from 6pm. The cost is $30 per person. Dinner is included.

This is only two weeks away and as such need to know who would like to and is able to attend as soon as possible. Please RSVP to Chris on 0404 760 131, minimalchris@gmail.com or one of the team captains.

Training!

Hey Heroes!

It's that time of the week again for me to notify you lovely people that there is going to be training this Sunday afternoon, at Oakman Park, at 3:15 until 5pm.

There has been some discussion of late that the Summer months are going to be HOT! This is true and really comes as no surprise, however, we could move training back half an hour to try and avoid some of the earlier afternoon heat. Put your thinking caps on and let us (me) know how you feel about the issue.

See you all there Sunday!!! xoxo Gossip Hero

Keeping up with the BUB

This was actually on my mind about 2 days ago, and now JdR has revisited his nickname poll. Our club/friends has/have a certain style of dishing out nicknames. I think I'm pretty responsible for a few of them. Spaz was my invention, or should I say, evolution, as was Hans, and I was certainly around the traps when Mick became Rick.

The trick is evolution. Take the name one step further. So as a 10 year old, when the kids were calling Sebastian Seb, or Sebas.. it seemed easy to progress / digress to Spaz. I'm sorry Spaz. It's only been 15 years.

Hanz is a more modern evolution. Her friends were calling her "Lans". One night I said "Oh hurro Hanz!", in the style and manner of Kim Jong Il as portrayed so brilliantly in Team America. So Alana is now named after the Swedish Diplomat, Hans Blix, not this Hans or this hans.

Rick happened when Sebastian started putting an R before people's names. What an odd thing to do! I was Rhinny for a while, which is of course short for Dinny which comes from Danny from Daniel. You could even say Ring Dings. Or Pepsi. But I digress. The brilliant thing about Rick is that we have an Uncle Rick, who is quite popular in UQ religion and philosophy circles and google searches for Strelan.

Matt Boevink apparently had a good nickname like this once...

Votes are in

Wonderwomen winning WUFL has been voted the crowning jewel of the Heroes Ultimate calendar. But have we nominated to soon? Discheads have made the BUML final in a close match over the other green mixed heroes team. Also we should say Agent Orange sadly went down in a close one too after leading much of the game.
So Go Discheads!!!
Come along and support the black and greys and eat some pizza and drink some...soft-dri..(beer)..nk
Monday night game starting 6.45pm

Social Media

Not so recently, Sensei declared on the DojoMoJoBlog that reading match reports was tiresome. It has also been said that JdR's controversial posts are waning. Steve juiced up his column with some BPL related gossip, Jason hit back with a tongue in cheek look at previous controversy, only to be mistaken for an attack on the LD. JdR's comments were fuelled by The Mayor of Slamtown, who regularly makes outlandish comments on his teams blog.

Now occasionally, bloggers get in trouble for seemingly criticizing those in administration roles. What's often forgotten is that we do this for FUN, and in stirring the pot, we may not fully believe what we say but it's sometimes worth looking at things in a different light. I think that this is a lot of fun, and it helps our little ultimate community feel more important. For this reason, I present to you the big names in ultimate blogging.

1. The Mayor

Stefan "Spaz" Rappazzo is a Mayor of a small town who is constantly campaigning for the next election. Lots of noise and fanfare, outrageous claims and promises, absolutely ridiculous persona (on the blogosphere). He has implemented one very important and strong policy, and that is the weekly rolling out of the BPL Power Rankings. Each week, The Mayor gives a candid, albeit SFC-biased opinion on how the teams are performing. We applaud him for this and predict another term in office for Spaz (not to be confused with Sebastian Brown of HUC).

2. Sensei

When Heroes first joined the BPL, I was told "No one really listens to Steven Cameron". This is a shame, as he often has some well-thought-out ideas when it comes to BPL administration. Sensei takes on the villian persona and runs with it, dishing up "Courier-mail style" gossip on a very irregular basis (last post 1 month ago). Sensei probably won't read this, as he's only concerned with Dojo news, which is actually quite interesting when the use of video is incorporated.

Sensei has claimed that "Byes s*ck". We know that forfeits are even worse, so maybe it's time for Dojo to assimilate into other teams, as they narrowly avoided another forfeit in the final game. (Here is a great example of a blogger saying something for controversy's sake.. not a serious suggestion but an interesting prod)

How did this end up sounding so bad? I appreciate Steven's input into a discussion, it's entertaining and often-times solid.

3. JdR

The King. JdR has come under fire lately for making assumptions for the sake of a good news piece. I dig his style. While this has directly effected Heroes leadership in the past, it was uneducated responses from our members that was the most irritating. The King of innuendo, and not only the sexual type. Jason uses the "royal we" or "we at the stately BUB mansion" to convey a tongue-in-cheek meaning. A lot of his "controversial" pieces may not have 100% accurate details, but they bring attention to an issue that may otherwise be ignored. It's best to think about what he is really trying to achieve before you get too worked up.

4. Carl

Carl is the founder of this incredible blog. His grammatical errors and poor spelling at times give us something to snicker about, and some of his sporting jargon often leaves me wondering whether he has used it correctly (the sayings in themselves are strange). Carl likes to blog about himself and his lovely fiancee Laura. This is all entertaining for those inside the club, and we thank Carl for putting us on the map and keeping the wheels running. Well done champ.

5. Kaitlin

It's a scientific fact that female comedian's aren't funny (go on, name one), but that's usually in reference to stand-up and not blogging. If Kaitlin has a blog, I'm unaware of it, but her comments on the Dojo and BUB blogs have been provocative, riotous, scathing, juicy and pretty spot on. More please!

Now I've spent an hour bringing this to who? I find myself asking "Why?". My novice linking will probably fail anyway and render most of this useless. I'm sorry.

Discheads progress @ the expense of their green family

The first semi final between Discheads and Heroes was poised to be an interesting game given the last two outings these teams had. DHs winning easily both occasions, but this was finals ultimate and nothing before matters.

AND WHAT A GAME WE GOT.

DHs came out early from the blocks and quickly broke us and put a score on to lead 2-0. Heroes were somewhat flustered and put a strong zone on the DHs and clogged the disc very well. We marched to 4-2 to take the lead and force the DHs to have a time out. Oh but before that Sarah from discheads became the latest casualty from Annerllys field 3a (or b which ever is the pot holely field) and did her ankle.
The two teams traded points I think to about 8-6. Then DHs put the after burners on and steam rolled the green Heroes to win in the end 12-10.

The game was really played in two patches of dominance. Heroes played very well in the first half of the game and DHs brought the intensity in the later stages. Well played DHs. I said everything that needed to be said in the circle after the game. Get out there next week and give the Heroes Ultimate Club our first BUML league championship.
Heres some photos of the action

Up....

Darryl White flies high

Lets raise our arms right, NOW...

Strange photo, normally the 'drag' goes behind the direction of the object? (Explanations? cause the disc looks to be in good focus...)

DiiiiiiiiiiiiiscHEADS

Hehe look at laura in the middle

Foul by MattS above?!?!?!

Craig shows who's boss. Nice vertical leap too

Safe strelan secures the swing

high fives all round as bev and mattS talk tactics

the high chaddy forehand swing. Notice the knee on the ground

I pose like this

Mr intense

Mr relaxed

Chan gets the D, i think...

These heroes love the gournded knee forehand

Nice result

Laura loves the green on green, AND SO DO I

Forehand by Carl, without grounding knee

Feel the love